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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 6070
Released: August 18, 1998 |
| Our Price: $3.54 |
| Used Price: $0.96 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Follow the Leader Track Listing:
1. It's On
2. Freak on a Leash
3. Got the Life
4. Dead Bodies Everywhere
5. Children Of The Korn (with Ice Cube)
6. B.B.K.
7. Pretty
8. All in the Family (with Fred Durst)
9. Reclaim my Place
10. Justin
11. Seed
12. Cameltosis (with Tre Hardson)
13. My Gift to You
14. Justin
15. Seed
16. Cameltosis
17. My Gift to You
Editorial Review:
First 12 tracks are blank...music begins on track 13.
Description of Follow the Leader:
Love 'em or despise 'em, you've got to give Korn props for kick-starting a new metal movement that blends aggressive hip-hop rhythms with roaring hate-metal riffs. In the wake of the band's 1994 debut, many like-minded groups cropped up, including Deftones, Snot, and Limp Bizkit. But with the release of Korn's disappointing 1996 sophomore effort, Life Is Peachy, the imitators seemed likely to usurp the innovators. Maybe that's why Follow the Leader is so crafty and inspired. Instead of continuing on cruise control, Korn have diversified their formula, experimenting with mood and dynamics while intensifying their melody and noise thresholds. "Got the Life" blends a seductive disco beat and vocals reminiscent of "Epic"-era Faith No More with oppressive guitar chimes and squawks. "Children of the Korn" features a propulsive rap beat, throbbing bass lines, and angry guest vocals by Ice Cube. But just when Korn's groovin' psychedelic fury starts to make listeners see red, the band lashes out with "All in the Family," a hilarious rap-metal diss-fest duet with Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, that proves Korn are much more than the sum of their rage. --Jon Wiederhorn
Follow the Leader Reviews:
it didnt work .... 
2009-08-29 - im sorry but im really disappointed,i have waited cause i was excited to listen to one of my favorite band.aand when i receive it... played it on my car stereo it didnt work...then i thought maybe my car stereo is broken tried it with different stereo and it still didnt work..so im totally bumb out
What Started It All For Me 
2009-07-28 - Follow the Leader is the album I have the fondest memories of. I was a Freshman in high school the year that this album came out and when I first heard, there was no looking back. I actually performed the song "It's On" at my high school Christmas talent show. While not my personal favorite KoRn album, I'd say a lot of fans would say that this album is the definition of KoRn. I mean come on, this is the album that has Freak On A Leash and Got the Life, two of their biggest hits! I also love B.B.K. Every song on FLT is fantastic in one or another. They definitely went more into the hip hop genre than the previous two albums which started the popularity of the Rap Rock scene of the late 90s. I've gotta give this one a five out of five score.
The Classic Korn
2009-07-02 - Korn may be having some troubles right now, but no matter what, the band has created an original and popular sound back in the days. Follow the Leader, their 3rd official album, has almost everything that you love about their sound and music. Songs like "B.B.K.," "Reclaim my Place," and especially "Freak on a Leash" grows after repeated listening. "Pretty" is a shocking song about what the lead singer, Jonathan Davis, saw in a bathroom. "Justin" is a song for a dying fan, and it's very touching and depressing at the same time. "My Gift to You" is an unusual love song that's more than just love. "All in the Family" is a hilarious "feud" between Davis and Fred Durst, from Limp Bizkit. And finally, "Earache My Eye" is a hidden track in the end of the CD that features Cheech Marin and loads of hysterical sounds and lyrics.
So what we have here is the classic Korn. It still holds up well after its '98 release. I just hope the band is able to revive itself sometime this year, or the year after.
thanks for the cd
2009-06-03 - It came in ok time, I would have liked to see it a little sooner
They lost me there... 
2009-03-21 - I remember back when I was a freshman in high school and the first Korn album came out. It was well ahead of the trends coming out at the time and were at the forefront of a new breed of blue-collar metal. Life as Peachy came out not too far afterward and while it didn't get the commercial or critical success of the first album, it was relatively-well conceived and still provided the high level of cathartic expression that was established in their first album.
This album came out to much fanfare and included various meet-and-greets the band conducted in certain markets to "keep it real." It was cool and even hearing the first track, "It's On", I was like "Yeah! KoRn is back and in full effect!"...
... but then I heard the rest of the album and was sorely disappointed. After a few plays, it went stagnant into my CD case and never really ended up back in my regular rotation.
At the end of the day, KoRn changed. Whether it be as a result of the band having new producers, the band featuring rap guests as opposed to metal ones, the group dealing with their newfound success, or the group's well-documented substance abuses during this period of time; the album showed the bands growth into a different direction than what they were doing at the time. That's fine for artists and I commend them as long as they were happy for it. Yet at the end of the day, it grew in a direction opposite from where I was headed in life and within a few months of the release of this CD, I quit considering myself a KoRn fan.
The album sounds somewhat dated at this point, but it's still good for a few spins if you're an emerging KoRn fan, a rap-metal fan, or interested in hearing one of the progenitors (not the many countless imitators) of the whole "baggy-pants, five-string bass" era of metal that was nu-metal.
